Judge John Minor Wisdom oi the United States fifth circuit court of appeals has taken under advisement the request of Louisiana State university for a sta|f of a federal district court order requiring LSU to register Negro students at its lakefront branch in New Orleans.
Judge Wisdom set 3 p. m. Thursday for a conference with attorneys representing LSU and those representing Negro appli-cants^to LSUNO.
Registration ends at 2:30 p. m| Thursday.
NEGROES REGISTER Meanwhile Negro students continued to register Wednesday under the terms of a preliminary injunction issued Monday fty federal Judge Herbert W. Christenberry.
A total of 11 Negro students-two on Tuesday and nine on Wednesday — are enrolled so far, with Thursday's activity remaining.
They) are arriony 1058 registered in the two-day period — 503 on Tuesday and 555 on Wednesday.
Registration p r o c e e d e d smoothly, without any untoward incident; evoking from Dr, Homer L. Hitt, LSUNO dean, the comment: "I'm extremely pleased."
ENROLLING TO CONTINUE On Thursday, students whose: last names begin with the let-| ters S through Z will register! between 8 a.m. and noon. And from 1 p. m. to 2:30 p. m., registration will continue for; students not previously enrolled.! LSU attorneys filed an application for a stay of the preliminary injunction and Wednesday filed a memorandum withj Judge Wisdom in support of that application. Attorneys for the Negro students also filed a memorandum Wednesday, one opposing the LSU application for a stay.
The LSU memorandum, filed I by assistant attorney general William P. Schuler, noted that several suits have been filed against LSU and as a result Negro students have been admitted by court order to the graduate school of LSU, its medical school, its law" school and its arts and science division where co mbin e d arts and science and law curriculum is concerned.
Until Tuesday Negro students have not been accepted for registration in the 99-year-old LSU, Its branch here opened last Friday.
• TUREAUD FILES The LSU application maintained that the relief granted by Judge Christenberry "goes beyond orders formerly granted.'1
It said further that the court of appeals has authority and supervisory jurisdiction "to stay a judgment pending an appeal provided that said stay order would in effect maintain the status quo."
The opposition memorandum was filed by A. P. Tureaud, Negro attorney representing the students.
It contends Judge Wisdom should deny the LSU application and notes that Judge Christenberry denied an LSU request for a stay of his preliminary in-| junction.
'WAIT A YEAR' Tureaud's memorandum 'states that if the Negro plaintiffs had not been permitted to register during formal registra-j tion Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week, they! would have then had to wait a year.
"Even under the old 'separate but equal' doctrine plaintiffs were entitled to be admitted to Louisiana State university in New Orleans at the same time and on the conditions under which white students were admitted," Tureaud argues in his memorandum.
He told the court that a stay would cause the Negro students "uncertain delays, irreparable injury, and (would be) a denial of a clear and unmistakable right to the equal protection of the laws."
